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Removable Pass-Book.
Patent for a book with a removable cover that lies flat when open and fits within a pocket. Particularly suited for bank books, also known as passbooks.
Date:
May 3, 1921
Creator:
Exline, Marcus P.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Strainer for Coffee-Pots.
Patent for a strainer "by which the steam from the fluid coffee which has passed through the percolating-cloth to the base of the coffee-pot can rise above the strainer, there condense, and then return again through the strainer, thus causing a thorough extraction of the strength of the coffee" (lines 9-15).
Date:
May 5, 1896
Creator:
Massey, Andrew J. & Stallings, James W.
System:
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Refrigerating Apparatus
Patent for an improved refrigerating apparatus.
Date:
May 6, 1919
Creator:
Strange, P. A.
System:
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Separator
Patent for separating oil or grease, grit and water of condensation from steam, either live steam or exhausted-steam, as it passes to or from an engine or steam-pump (lines 10-14).
Date:
May 28, 1901
Creator:
Hanson, Frank
System:
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Street-Sweeping Machine.
Patent for street sweeping machine that improves the collection and dumping of material and includes a scraping device to loosen material stuck to the roadway.
Date:
May 8, 1906
Creator:
Clark, James P.
System:
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Resilient Filler for Elastic Rubber Vehicle Tires
Patent for filler material to support the exterior casing of rubber tires for vehicles. The patent illustrates and describes filler material to enhance an improved rubber tire of efficient and superior quality to previous vehicle tires.
Date:
May 26, 1914
Creator:
Staten, Claude S.
System:
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Pump for Hydraulic Presses
Patent for a hydraulic pump that drives at a uniform speed as the pressure of the press increases, and connects the pistons with two pairs of cylinders moving in opposite cycles.
Date:
May 10, 1921
Creator:
Henry, Nelson B.
System:
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Power-Transmission Mechanism
Patent for a power transmission with improvements to mechanisms related to frame adjustment, lubrication, motion transmission, and speed gearing, among others.
Date:
May 2, 1922
Creator:
Mays, James L.
System:
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Folding Crate
Patent for folding crate. Illustration included.
Date:
May 8, 1906
Creator:
Anderson, Oliver Lacy
System:
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Fishing Float
Patent for a fishing float. Illustration included.
Date:
May 23, 1905
Creator:
Jones, Daniel M.
System:
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Handle Bar
Patent for a bicycle handlebar
Date:
May 18, 1915
Creator:
Cortines, Ernest J.
System:
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Mattress
Patent for a mattress made with folded layers of material, such as cotton or wool, where the fibers are placed in a vertical position.
Date:
May 16, 1911
Creator:
Heermans, Wallace T.
System:
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Method and Apparatus for Generating Motive Fluid
Patent for improvement in methods and apparatus for generating motive fluid "to provide a source of combustion" and dispose of it outside the generator to generate steam (lines 11-12).
Date:
May 1, 1917
Creator:
Reordan, Charles, E.
System:
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Overalls.
Patent for a type of overalls where the jumper is elevated from the seat. The jumper is elevated from the jumper to prevent rain and other substances from saturating the seat. The jumper can also be removed from the seat by unfastening a concealed button hole band.
Date:
May 25, 1920
Creator:
Godchaux, Herbert
System:
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Pneumatic Tire
Patent for pneumatic tires. Illustration included.
Date:
May 3, 1910
Creator:
Dazey, Harry L.
System:
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Electric Bath-Brush
Patent for improvements to an electric brush so that it is "exceedingly effective in its operation and at the same time simple in construction, combining lightness with durability, and securing the best results medicinally to the user. A further object consists in providing a construction whereby the entire brush may be dismantled, so as to obtain access to the interior when necessary, and to permit of the brush being used as an ordinary bath-brush by simply removing the batteries" (lines 15-25).
Date:
May 20, 1890
Creator:
Williams, Robert E.
System:
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Doffer.
Patent for a doffer for removing cotton lint from gin saw blades, which does not harm the saws and is very sturdy.
Date:
May 25, 1909
Creator:
Vardell, Arthur A.
System:
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Draft-Equalizer.
Patent for a "draft even or equalizer...for various cultivators, and particularly for disk plows" (lines 10-12).
Date:
May 27, 1902
Creator:
Dysart, William C.
System:
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Draft-Equalizer
Patent for "a draft-equalizer that the draft will be equally distributed among each of the animals attached thereto, so that one may travel in the furrow, if desired, and the remainder permitted to move over the unplowed ground" (lines 22-27).
Date:
May 14, 1901
Creator:
Anderson, Samuel Cornelious
System:
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Cotton Elevator, Cleaner, and Feeder.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in cotton elevators, cleaners, and feeders, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 24, 1898
Creator:
Seifert, John W.
System:
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Cotton-Gin.
Patent for an improved brush cylinder for cotton gins.
Date:
May 9, 1911
Creator:
Murray, Stephen D.
System:
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Cotton Gin
Patent for a cotton gin. This is an improvement over previous gins. The invention uses air blasting methods and dispenses with brush drums. Illustration included.
Date:
May 12, 1908
Creator:
Lumpkin, Robert B.
System:
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Cotton Press
Patent for a cotton press. Illustration included.
Date:
May 30, 1905
Creator:
Stephens, Louis K.
System:
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Cultivator.
Patent for getting a good knowledge on how to use a cultivator, detailed instructions are provided.
Date:
May 9, 1916
Creator:
Blalock, Justice E.
System:
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